Quotes About Creativity

At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.